Jeremy Burton
By Jeremy Burton
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Opinion Bruce Springsteen’s Super Bowl ad offered a powerful vision of American unity — for Christians
(JTA) — The two-minute advertisement, for Jeep, appeared late in Sunday’s Super Bowl. “The Middle,” narrated by Bruce Springsteen, is a meditation on the theme of national unity. In the wake of President Biden’s call to honor unity, bipartisanship and civility, the words should have been compelling: “The middle has been a hard place to…
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Community Dear Jewish community – here’s what to do now
As protests continue across the United States, we are witnessing at the forefront, a conversation about what the Jewish community relations field has long understood to exist under the surface: systemic racism underlies and permeates our societal structures. Policies such as housing and zoning practices, inequitable school funding, access to early childhood education, differential policing…
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Opinion A newfound humility: We’re in this together.
Previous Article Next Article The unprecedented nature of what we’re experiencing and its radical implication for virtually every aspect of our individual and collective lives means that we cannot yet say how our reality will be permanently altered in the wake of the coronavirus. But there is one realization from this still early chapter of…
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Opinion It’s Not The Jews’ Job To Figure Out How To Stop Anti-Semitism. It’s Yours.
What is happening in America now is not just a crisis for Jews, but for the country as a whole
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Opinion Like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, My Latinx And Jewish Histories Intersect
At a Hanukkah party on Sunday night, Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared that “generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews.” In doing so, she publicly joined a vast community of people, including my family, in embracing the space where Jewish and Latinx identities intersect. It is a story that, sadly, has long sat…
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